Packed full of galleries of beautiful illustrations by Maxfield Parrish, Aubrey Beardsley, William Morris, Gustave Doré, Arthur Rackham and others with prints one can buy of any illustration,
Artsy Craftsy includes a sumptuous collection of Victorian Fairies illustrations. The site also has the illustrated
Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, illustrations of cats in fairy tales,
Magic Cats, and a selection of
beautiful free
ecards as well.
[more inside]
posted by nickyskye
on Dec 19, 2007 -
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Parting the Veil of Faery:
The Colmore Fatagravures, said to date from the 1890s. "A Scottish adventurer, inventor, and photographer named
Neville Colmore claimed to have constructed a device capable of '...parting the veil of Faery...' The device, which he called the Spectobarathrum, along with all of the images he claimed to have made were believed destroyed in a fire. I believe some of these images and related artefacts may have survived."
[via Apothecary's Drawer]
posted by mediareport
on Jun 19, 2007 -
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Bill O'Reilly respondsYouTube to a
8 year oldYouTube (though he leaves out her saying "that idiot O'Reilly"). Bill and his "expert"
Wendy Murphy (who claims that the ACLU supports child sex abuse) agree that the girl's performance is child abuse - "the ultimate inhumane treatment of a child". Murphy goes on to highlight the danger possibility of "some [religious] nut [who] wants to hunt this family down." The
many comments at YouTube illustrate this point – while some are supportive, others call her a slut, and Tanzman6
(who has belonged to Right to Life and Peer Ministry clubs) says
"This little chink should shut the fuck up. We should have killed her parents in Viet Nam when we had the fucking chance. Burn the bitch."
While the child obviously had help with her material, is O'Reilly right that statements like "religion has caused the genocide of nations" is propaganda about which she understands nothing? Even after considering that she is Lakota (Sioux) and probably related to Greg Zephier, an American Indian Movement Leader?
[most material taken from Jesus's General]
posted by MonkeySaltedNuts
on Dec 7, 2006 -
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Hoorah!
Fairy Congress '03 is almost upon us. With the admiral goal of Promoting Quality Human & Fairy Relations and special guest
Dotty Maclean of
Findhorn Community fame who apparently has done more than any other person in the 20th century to popularize the idea that humans can communicate with
devas, in attendance you'd be crazy to miss it. Sure
looks like fun...
posted by zeoslap
on May 30, 2003 -
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The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke (FFM) (in the
Tate collection)
Richard Dadd, a Victorian gentleman, a
convicted murderer and patient at the famous Bedlam asylum, spent nine years carefully crafting his masterpiece. He wrote a guidebook for it and insisted that each of the hundred characters in the painting is assigned a special task. What does he mean? Well, Neil Gaiman, among
others,
was inspired by this painting (it influenced the Sandman) and considers it a life-long obsession. He also wrote the introduction to a
new book being published about the painting as a gateway to the supernatural world.
A bit of background: Dadd was a painter of
Victorian Fairy Art. The obsession with fairies was like a fever that overtook the Victorian Mind. Another painter of note was
Richard Doyle, the uncle of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes). A.C. Doyle himself was involved in a fascinating controversy that raged at the time.
the Cottingley fairies, in which two young girls circulated
photos of themselves with fairies. Doyle proclaimed that the photos "
represent either the most elaborate and ingenious hoax ever played upon the public or else they constitute an event in human history which may in the future appear to have been epoch-making in its character" Unfortunately for Doyle, it was the former though the hoax was hardly ingenious, relying on cardboard cutouts and the will to believe.
posted by vacapinta
on Jul 18, 2002 -
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